The study used the generic “Our takeaway - if you’re buying a brand new EV - be it a new make or a new model - there’s a higher potential for a battery replacement, but you should expect it to be fully covered by the vehicle warranty.”

It’s their version of 3M wrap... Lexus charges $500 from the factory with that option clicked for Hood, Door handles, and Outside Mirrors.

Why? People need to know which dealers are garbage and which treat people like humans.

I wish you had stories about Stoler as well... I could write books on how that family is borderline criminal.

I give you Sheehy Lexus in Annapolis, MD... Last week my mother went looking for an RX350h and they flat out refused to remove the charge. The reasoning “Well, it’s already on the car!”

Tesla/Musk is a great example of Hot Hand Fallacy where Wall Street (and Kathie Woods in particular) keep telling everyone that the next big thing is happening next week for Tesla.

Use case specific - My employer keeps a few cars around for visiting employees or contractors who need to be in the area for an undefined period of time. Charging on-site and being able to write-down makes this a no brainer for $4500 (US)/yr.

Inflation discussion with any candidate is always influenced by recency bias or they blame someone else for previous decisions that affect people today. The ever-popular Congressperson or President who thinks they control the Federal Reserve’s daily/weekly/monthly choices should not be in office longer.

The wage gains are offset in too many cases by structural cost increases that aren’t keeping ahead of those raises. Insurance is a simple example.

You had me until “Dow closing above 40,000".

Damn it, take your star!

First car was a 1987 Volvo 740 GLE with the odd manual with overdrive button and inter-lock on the shaft for reverse. Dad bought it new and just offered it up in ‘88 when I was legal to drive (We worked out a creative payment system!)

The Polestar 3 version of this platform is more to my liking. No need for the additional row of seats. Unfortunately the wife will kill me after buying an R1T this year.

Neither of your options are EVs, so you already are paying a premium on the tech.

The Trolley Problem... that’s my reason for not trusting AI to drive me anywhere. Add in I bought an EV to have a little fun jamming the pedal to the floor and momentarily get pushed back into my seat! FSD isn’t going to voluntarily do that...

China can afford to make these statement due to high investment in African Infrastructure. Belts & Roads along with electric grid improvements gets you to a point where the native population is going to need means of utilizing them.

This was the breakdown of the compensation package...

I can’t imagine what the Environmental lobbyist are doing right now. Millions spent to convince Government to make paradigm shifting investments in infrastructure and rule making only to have the Domestic OEMs slow product development.

The US doesn’t want to get into a subsidy race with China, which they would lose. Getting Congress to vote through $100s of Billions is a fool’s errand. It’s the arbitrary timeframe that is creating the issue, along with the manufacturers telling people they can’t do it fast enough.

Bloomberg is reporting that Biden will be imposing a 102% tariff on Chinese EVs. Simply to protect domestic manufacturers who don’t want cheap EVs flooding the market and collapsing their market share.